{"id":1159532,"date":"2026-08-20T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1159532\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:38:11","slug":"jorja-smith-on-fame-what-are-the-odds-and-escaping-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1159532\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorja Smith on fame, What Are the Odds, and escaping London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Smith arrived at Isong\u2019s studio in Bethnal Green, she thought she would leave with a four-track EP. Two days passed. \u201cI went to my label\u2019s office, and I was like, \u2018Guys, I think this is an album. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a little dance project. Like, this is serious,\u2019\u201d she says, her nails clacking together as she makes the point. As it turns out, Isong had a whole Pandora\u2019s box of beats ready for Smith. \u201cWhen he played everything, I was just like, \u2018Wait, wait, wait, wait, this is sick.\u2019 And if I hear something and I love it, I always want to sing. We listened to literally one song, and I was like, \u2018OK, let\u2019s get the mic out and sing.\u2019\u201d Once Smith picked up the mic, she couldn\u2019t stop. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Smith arrived at Isong\u2019s studio in Bethnal Green, she thought she would leave with a four-track EP.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1159533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3936],"tags":[62437,77,462,37144,269,47965,16,15],"class_list":["post-1159532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-all-points-east","tag-entertainment","tag-interview","tag-jorja-smith","tag-music","tag-music-interviews","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117128587301086250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1159533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}